Wednesday, July 16, 2014

In all the hoopla-stravanga over the twenty-fifth anniversary of a movie that, let's face it, just hasn't aged very well, let's look at the words of the late great Kim Thompson about Batman '89 over in Amazing Heroes, The Comics Journal's superhero-lovin' kid brother. Take especial note of the prophetic last para:

Part of "Editorial" from Amazing Heroes #162 (April 1989), written by Kim Thompson

I could devote the entire rest of the month to the gruesome bear attacks of the black-humored feature Shako, which ran for 16 installments in the early issues of 2000 AD. In the words of the feature's slogan: "Shako hates mankind, and what Shako hates, Shako destroys!" Which, you have to admit, is certainly a better slogan than "smarter than the average bear." Yep, I could just post any random panel from a Shako story to fulfill the requirements of Bear Attack! Month, but let's just indulge with a couple more that cement Shako's position as the killer Incredible Hulk of the bears: